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| Original Title: | Passing |
| ISBN: | 0142437271 (ISBN13: 9780142437278) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Irene Redfield, Clare Kendry, Brian Redfield |
| Setting: | Chicago, Illinois(United States) New York City, New York(United States) Harlem, New York City, New York(United States) |
Nella Larsen
Paperback | Pages: 122 pages Rating: 3.85 | 19157 Users | 1526 Reviews
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| Title | : | Passing |
| Author | : | Nella Larsen |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Penguin Classics |
| Pages | : | Pages: 122 pages |
| Published | : | April 24th 2003 by Penguin (first published 1929) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. African American. Race. Academic. School |
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Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. First published to critical acclaim in 1929, Passing firmly established Nella Larsen's prominence among women writers of the Harlem Renaissance. The Modern Library is proud to present Passing—an electrifying story of two women who cross the color line in 1920s New York—together with a new Introduction by the Obie Award- winning playwright and novelist Ntozake Shange. Irene Redfield, the novel's protagonist, is a woman with an enviable life. She and her husband, Brian, a prominent physician, share a comfortable Harlem town house with their sons. Her work arranging charity balls that gather Harlem's elite creates a sense of purpose and respectability for Irene. But her hold on this world begins to slip the day she encounters Clare Kendry, a childhood friend with whom she had lost touch. Clare—light-skinned, beautiful, and charming—tells Irene how, after her father's death, she left behind the black neighborhood of her adolescence and began passing for white, hiding her true identity from everyone, including her racist husband. As Clare begins inserting herself into Irene's life, Irene is thrown into a panic, terrified of the consequences of Clare's dangerous behavior. And when Clare witnesses the vibrancy and energy of the community she left behind, her burning desire to come back threatens to shatter her careful deception. Brilliantly plotted and elegantly written, Passing offers a gripping psychological portrait of emotional extremity.Rating Based On Books Passing
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PASSING gets an above-passing grade. It was on my TBR list for so long that I'm not sure why I might have wanted to read it, but I'm glad I got through it and...yeah, I'm glad I read it.Another great novel by Nella Larsen, set in Harlem in the 1920s and written in 1929. It is about two childhood friends, Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry, written in the third person from the point of view of Redfield. One of the keys to the novel lies in the title. Passing indicates, in this case a person of mixed heritage passing as someone who is white (in this novel Kendry). But this is not just a novel about race, Larsen addresses sexuality and gender as well. The plot revolves around Kendry
I read this for university and I ... really, really liked it. It's nice when your school texts suck you in so much it's like you're not even doing schoolwork. This was incredibly thought-provoking and such easy reading compared to some other modernist texts. The amount of ground Larsen was able to cover in such a short book was truly a feat. I really enjoyed the themes Larsen chose to explore and following her characters as they struggled with their identities and situations. While at times the
5 "astute, biting, theatrical" stars !! 2017 Honorable Mention with High Distinction Read This was an extremely thought provoking and personally challenging read for me on a number of levels. Passing is such an odd concept for me to fully grasp on a deeper level. I straddle the line in so many ways in my own life and have always seen the world and expressed my own self in a non-binary fashion. Luckily this was not only accepted by my family of origin but also encouraged and nurtured by a select
Huzzah for neat seguing of plot pulse and theme! This one proves to be a much better outing than Quicksand because it relies on dialogue and interactions between characters to gradually disclose its cleverly withheld secrets. Till the very end Larsen successfully kept me guessing at the hidden fears, ambitions and motivations that drive Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry - two light-skinned black women who subscribe to different forms of morally ambiguous survivalist ideology to counter the
A novel about passing as white, coded with queer subtext, Passing follows protagonist Irene Redfield as she rekindles a deep bond with her childhood friend Clare Kendry at the height of the Harlem Renaissance. Both Clare and Irene are light-skinned Black women who grew up in the same neighborhood; since the time of their separation from each other, though, Clare has married an aggressive white supremacist and begun passing as a white woman, while Irene has thoroughly involved herself in the
Another great novel by Nella Larsen, set in Harlem in the 1920s and written in 1929. It is about two childhood friends, Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry, written in the third person from the point of view of Redfield. One of the keys to the novel lies in the title. Passing indicates, in this case a person of mixed heritage passing as someone who is white (in this novel Kendry). But this is not just a novel about race, Larsen addresses sexuality and gender as well. The plot revolves around Kendry
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